1907

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1907 by topic:

Arts

Architecture - Art - Film - Literature Music (Country ) - Television

Science and technology

Archaeology - Aviation Meteorology - Rail transport - Science

By country

Australia - Canada - India Ireland - Malaysia - New Zealand - Singapore - South Africa - UK - Wales - Zimbabwe

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Awards - Sport - Law - State leaders - Sovereign states - Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

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1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Undated 2 Births 2.1 January-February 2.2 March-April 2.3 May-June 2.4 July-August 2.5 September-October 2.6 November-December 2.7 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 January - June 3.2 July - December 4 Nobel Prizes 5 Notes

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• January - The British steamship Pengwern foundered in the North Sea: crew and 24 men lost.
• January - The Prinz Waldemar, Hamburg-American line, ran aground at Kingston, Jamaica, after earthquake: 3 lives lost.
• January 6 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome (Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo).
• January 14 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
• January 23 - Charles Curtis from Kansas becomes the first Native American US Senator.

[edit] February

• February 12 - The steamship Larchmont collided with the Harry Hamilton in Long Island Sound: 183 lives lost.

• February 21 - English mail steamship Berlin wrecked off the Hook of Holland: 142 lives lost.

• February 24 - The Austrian Lloyd steamship Imperatrix, from Trieste to Bombay, wrecked on Cape of Crete and sunk: 137 lives lost.

• February - The French warship Jean Bart was sunk off the coast of Morocco.

[edit] March

• March 5 - The new Duma is opened in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators had to be dispersed by Russian troops.
• March 15 - 16 - First parliamentary elections in Finland, the first elections in the world with woman candidates as well as the first elections in Europe where universal suffrage was applied.
• March 18 - Train robbery in Sweden (first and only as of 2004)
• March 22 - The first cabs with taxi meters began operating in London.
• 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt

• March - Steamship Congo sunk at mouth of Ems river by German steamship Nerissa: 7 lives lost.

• March - The French warship Jena was blown up at Toulon: 120 lives lost.

[edit] April

• April 11 - At Porto Cortez, Honduras: the only war vessel of Honduras, the gunboat Ta Tumbla, steamed into the harbor flying the American flag and surrendered with a white flag, when the Nicaraguan gunboat San Jacinto steamed out to meet her.

• April 18 - The USS Kansas (BB-21), a Connecticut-class battleship, was commissioned.

• April - The April 1907 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine displayed the cover price "One Dollar a Year" (under title).

[edit] May

May 7 Seattle film maker William Harbeck sets up a camera at the front of a B.C. Electric streetcar and films the downtown streets of Vancouver, British Columbia. Chunks of the little movie have disappeared over the 100 years since, but about 7 minutes remain. The Vancouver Historical Society will duplicate the filming in 2007, following the same route, and produce the result (including split-screen footage of the old and the new) on a DVD in 2007.

[edit] June

• June 1 - Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded for a county cricket match (or for a single day's bowling), and not bettered in first-class cricket until 1956.
• June 5 - BAPS Swaminarayan sect of Hinduism established by Swami Yagnapurushdas.
• June 11 - George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.

• June 15 - The Second Hague Peace Conference is held.

[edit] July

• July 6 - Guardians of Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen.
• July 25 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
• July - Steamship Columbia was sunk off Shelton Cove, California, in collision with steamship San Pedro: 50 lives lost.

[edit] August

• August 1-9 - Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, England.
• August 17 - Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington officially opened for business.
• August 28 - UPS was founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington.
• August 31 - Formation of the Anglo-Russian Entente.

[edit] September

• September 26 - New Zealand and Newfoundland become a dominion.

[edit] October

• October 24 - A major American financial crisis was averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Henry Clay Frick, and other Wall Street financiers created a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange leading to the bank panic of 1907.
• The first non-profit school in California is created, Polytechnic School.

[edit] November

• November 16 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.

[edit] December

• December 6 - Monongah Mining Disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia
• December 19 - Explosion in coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania - 239 dead

[edit] Undated

• The Diamond Sutra of 868, a Buddhist scripture later dated as earliest example of block printing, is discovered in the Mogao Caves.
• The triode thermionic amplifier invented by Lee DeForest, starting the development of electronics as a practical technology.
• The Autochrome Lumière is the first color photography process marketed.
• Herero Wars end
• French warship Jena explodes: 117 dead.
• First parliamentary elections in the Philippines
• Adlon Hotel finished in Berlin
• The Moine Thrust Belt in Scotland becomes the first thrust belt to be discovered in the world.
• The Lockport Powerhouse is built.
• James Murray Spangler invents the first Hoover vacuum cleaner
• The Finnish epic, Kalevala published for the second time in the English Language. This time by William Forsell Kirby.

[edit] Births

1907 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1907 MCMVII
Ab urbe condita	2660
Armenian calendar	1356 ԹՎ ՌՅԾԶ
Bahá'í calendar	63 – 64
Buddhist calendar	2451
Chinese calendar	4543/4603-11-17 (丙午年十一月十七日) — to — 4544/4604-11-27 (丁未年十一月廿七日)
Ethiopian calendar	1899 – 1900
Hebrew calendar	5667 – 5668
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1962 – 1963
- Shaka Samvat	1829 – 1830
- Kali Yuga	5008 – 5009
Holocene calendar	11907
Iranian calendar	1285 – 1286
Islamic calendar	1324 – 1325
Japanese calendar	Meiji 40 (明治40年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2567 (皇紀2567年)
- Jōmon Era	11907
Julian calendar	1952
Korean calendar	4240
Thai solar calendar	2450
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[edit] January-February

• January 12 - Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966)
• January 20 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
• January 22 - Dixie Dean, English football phenomenon (d. 1980)
• January 23 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
• February 1 - Günter Eich, German writer (d. 1972)
• February 15 - Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (d. 1991)
• February 15 - Cesar Romero, American actor (d. 1994)
• February 17 - Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (d. 1983)
• February 18 - Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter
• February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)
• February 22
  • Sheldon Leonard, American actor, writer, director, and producer (d. 1997)
  • Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
• February 27 - Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)

[edit] March-April

• March 8 - Constantine Caramanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)
• March 9 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer (d. 1986)
• March 12
  • Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer
  • Arthur Hewlett, actor (d. 1997)
• March 15 - Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981)
• March 18 - John Zachary Young, English biologist (d. 1997)
• March 22 - Lucia dos Santos, Potuguese nun and visionary (d. 2005)
• March 23 - Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1992)
• March 29 - "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006)
• April 1 - Dr. Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji, Indian born social reformer
• April 12 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor (d. 2003)
• April 13 - Harold Stassen, American politician (d. 2001)
• April 15 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1988)
• April 23 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975)
• April 24 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988)
• April 29
  • Tino Rossi, French singer (d. 1983)
  • Fred Zinnemann, Austrian director (d. 1997)

[edit] May-June

• May 1 - Oliver Hill, Civil Rights Attorney
• May 2 - Pinky Lee, American comedian (d. 1993)
• May 9 - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)
• May 11 - Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988)
• May 12 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
• May 13 - Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989)
• May 14
  • Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
  • Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)
• May 22
  • Hergé, Belgian comics author (d. 1983)
  • Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor and director (d. 1989)
• May 25 - U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
• May 26
  • John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)
  • Rachel Carson, American environmental writer (d. 1964)
• May 30 - Elly Beinhorn, German pilot
• June 14
  • Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator (d. 1978)
  • René Char, French poet (d. 1988)
• June 19 - Clarence Wiseman, Salvation Army general (d. 1985)
• June 23 - James Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• June 25 - J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laurete (d. 1973)
• June 28 Franciszka Themerson, Polish, later British, artist and film-maker (d. 1989)

[edit] July-August

• July 6 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
• July 7 - Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author (d. 1988)
• July 16
  • Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
  • Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and businessman (d. 1995)
• July 27
  • Richard Beesly, British Olympic gold medal rower (d. 1965)
  • Ross Alexander, American actor (d. 1937)
• August 2 - Mary Hamman, American writer and editor, modern living editor LIFE and eidtor in chief Bride & Home (d. 1984)
• August 7 - Albert Kotin, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 1980)
• August 8 - Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
• August 12 - Joe Besser, American comedian (d. 1988)
• August 13 - Viscount William Waldorf Astor, British politician (d. 1966)
• August 31 - Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician

[edit] September-October

• September 3 - Loren Eiseley, Nebraska author, USA (d. 1977)
• September 12
  • Spud Chandler, baseball player (d. 1990)
  • Louis MacNeice, Northern Irish poet (d. 1963)
• September 15 - Fay Wray, Canadian-born actress (d. 2004)
• September 18
  • Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)
  • Edwin McMillan, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• September 23 - Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, Pretender to the throne of Portugal (d. 1976)
• September 26 - Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (d. 1992)
• September 27 - Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and writer (d. 2003)
• September 29 - Gene Autry, American actor (d. 1998)
• October 2 - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize luarete (d. 1997)
• October 4 - Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong media mogul
• October 5 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
• October 9 - Lord Hailsham, British politician (d. 2001)
• October 15 - Varian Fry, American journalist and rescuer (d. 1967)
• October 19 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d. 1962)
• October 22 - Jimmie Foxx, baseball player (d. 1967)
• October 28 - John Harold Hewitt, Irish poet (d. 1987)
• October 30 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)

[edit] November-December

• November 14
  • Howard W. Hunter, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1995)
  • Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's writer (d. 2002)
  • William Steig, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
• November 16 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997)
• November 18 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2003)
• November 26 - Ruth Patrick, botanist
• November 27 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d. 2000)
• November 28 - Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (d. 1990)
• November 30 - Jacques Barzun, French born historian
• December 10 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
• December 15 - Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect
• December 19 - Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-born boxer (d. 2004)
• December 22 - Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (d. 1991)
• December 23 - James Roosevelt, American businessman and politician (d. 1991)
• December 25 - Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (d. 1988)
• December 27 - Johann Wilhelm Trollmann, German boxer (d. 1943)

[edit] Unknown dates

• Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (d. 1973)
• Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
• Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (d. 1998)

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January - June

• January 14 - Hermann Iseke, doctor (b. 1856)
• January 31 - Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)
• February 2 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
• February 16
  • Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
  • Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1817)
• February 20 - Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• February 26 - C. W. Alcock, English footballer, journalist, and football promoter (b. 1842)
• March 19 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (b. 1836)
• March 23 - Konstantin Pobedonostsev, statesman (b. 1827)
• May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)

[edit] July - December

• July 13 - Heinrich Kreutz, astronomer (b. 1854)
• August - Dinqinesh Mercha, empress consort of Ethiopia (b. 1815)
• August 15 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831)
• August 16 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
• August 25 - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, British poet and novelist (b. 1861)

• September 4 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
• September 6 - Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)

• November 16 - Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848)
• November 28 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish writer, painter, and architect (b. 1869)

• December 8 - King Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
• December 17 - Lord Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer (b. 1824)

[edit] Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Albert Abraham Michelson
• Chemistry - Eduard Buchner
• Medicine - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
• Literature - Rudyard Kipling ("in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author").
• Peace - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault

[edit] Notes